A character in this novel asks his brother to cover up his suicide by telling their mother that he died from being kicked by a horse. A one-legged veteran in this novel spurs his wife to drown herself when he gives her gonorrhea and amasses a fortune by lying about his role in the Civil War. As a girl, a character in this novel possibly causes her teacher’s suicide and fakes her death in a fire that kills her parents. In this novel, the Chinese immigrant Lee contrasts various translations of the Hebrew word for “thou mayest,” timshel. After her neighbor Samuel Hamilton helps with the birth of her twins, the heartless Cathy Ames shoots her husband Adam in this novel at their farm in Salinas Valley. For 10 points, Cal and Aron Trask stand in for Cain and Abel in what novel by John Steinbeck? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.67 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 128.55 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 97.20 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 110.33 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.75 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 75.20 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.75 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.63 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 128.40 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Brown | 25 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida C | 55 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 58 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 63 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | NC State B | 66 | 10 |
| William Edwards | Tennessee A | Bruin | 68 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 76 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 79 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | CWRU B | 79 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Washington B | 79 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 82 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan A | 82 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | NC State A | 82 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Vanderbilt B | 82 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 84 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 85 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 86 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 86 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Southern Connecticut State | 86 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Imperial C | 86 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | CWRU A | 87 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Harvard A | 87 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Carleton College | 88 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | Missouri B | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Iowa State | 88 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton A | 88 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 89 | 10 |
| Owen Banks | Duke | Virginia Tech A | 89 | -5 |
| Max Kurzman | North Carolina C | William and Mary | 89 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Chicago D | 89 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 92 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | UBC B | 93 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Purdue A | 94 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 94 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 94 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 95 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech D | 96 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 96 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan State | 97 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 97 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Alabama B | 97 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 97 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 97 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UCSD C | 98 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Queen's | 100 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Central Florida B | 100 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 100 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Tennessee B | 100 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 100 | 10 |
| Annewsa Ghosh | Indiana C | Northwestern D | 102 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Northwestern C | 102 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 105 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 109 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Illinois C | 113 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Indiana A | 116 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA B | UCSD B | 120 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 123 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto G | 129 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 129 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Imperial B | 129 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | UBC A | 130 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 135 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 136 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 139 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia | 139 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Cambridge C | 140 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 141 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State | UC Irvine | 142 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 142 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Manchester | 143 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Oxford B | 143 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Western A | 145 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Edinburgh A | 145 | 0 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Southampton A | 145 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Ottawa | 146 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Toronto F | 146 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto D | 146 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Western C | 146 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 146 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 146 | 10 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 146 | 0 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 146 | 0 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 146 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 146 | 0 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Southampton B | 146 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 146 | 10 |